GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 480
CORE STATE
Ellesmere
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1266 MHz
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GT 240
CORE STATE
GT215
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
69 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Tesla 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2009
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
GT 240
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
96
-95.8%
Shaders
2,304
96
-95.8%
TMUs
144
32
-77.8%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
12
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
550 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1340 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
850 MHz
3.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
1024 MB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
1,024
-87.5%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
54.40 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
2 MB
64 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
4.400 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
17.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
257.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
150 W
69 W
TDP (W)
150
69
-54.0%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Tesla 2.0
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GT215
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
GeForce 200
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
727 million
Die Size
232 mm²
144 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
24.6M / mm²
5.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Vulkan
1.3
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
CUDA
—
1.2
Shader Model
6.7
4.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
168 mm
6.6 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
80 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 9
Successor
Polaris
GeForce 400